Police are investigating the death of an elderly woman who was left without care in her own home for nine days.

Gloria Foster, 81, was found suffering from dehydration and starvation after going without the four daily visits she was supposed to have.

She had been receiving help in her own home in Banstead, Surrey, from Carefirst24, but Surrey county council became responsible for her care after a number of its workers were arrested last month following a UK Border Agency raid.

Surrey police said officers were looking into the circumstances surrounding the incident after Foster died in hospital on Monday.

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